Norton Commander wrote on 2024-02-19, 18:29:

I've tested Supermium on XP Sp3 x86 and Windows 7 SP1 x64. My Windows XP machine is single core with 3 GB RAM. It runs miserably slow. My Windows 7 PC is dual core with 8 GB RAM and it runs fine. Supermium is based on Chromium 121 so no suprise that early XP era machines will have trouble running it smoothly. It is good to have a modern Chrome browser for legacy OSes since there are a few websites that have trouble in modern Mozilla browsers. One more advantage to Supermium is the author's commitment to Manifest V2.

It seems to run very nicely on my XP gaming PC.

specs:
Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2
4GB DDR3-1866
GTX970
240GB SSD

What CPU is in your XP machine?

I found Falkon to be the best choice for Linux on my P4 build (dual-booted with XP), as I showed in this thread.
Heavier webapps like YouTube run slow, but for most webpages it works really well.

Unfortunately, it supports Windows starting from 7.

theelf wrote on 2024-02-02, 16:46:

Good news!!!!!!! Chromium 121+ on XP!!!! […]
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Good news!!!!!!! Chromium 121+ on XP!!!!

https://github.com/win32ss/supermium

At least in my 2 XP machines, XP x64 desktop and XP 32bits laptop, super stable, no problems for now, about e xtensions, i only tested ublock origin no problem works fine

WOW even web app works!!!

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That's great, I have to try it but I don't think it will run smoothly on mid '00 hardware 😅

Demetrio wrote on 2024-03-03, 07:11:

I found Falkon to be the best choice for Linux on my P4 build (dual-booted with XP), as I showed in this thread. Heavier webapps […]
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I found Falkon to be the best choice for Linux on my P4 build (dual-booted with XP), as I showed in this thread.
Heavier webapps like YouTube run slow, but for most webpages it works really well.

Unfortunately, it supports Windows starting from 7.

theelf wrote on 2024-02-02, 16:46:

Good news!!!!!!! Chromium 121+ on XP!!!! […]
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Good news!!!!!!! Chromium 121+ on XP!!!!

https://github.com/win32ss/supermium

At least in my 2 XP machines, XP x64 desktop and XP 32bits laptop, super stable, no problems for now, about e xtensions, i only tested ublock origin no problem works fine

WOW even web app works!!!

Image1.jpg

That's great, I have to try it but I don't think it will run smoothly on mid '00 hardware 😅

The oldest PC i have for daily use is a Xeon L5430 (quad core 2.6ghz), 8B ram, SSD, and work like a charm. I have a laptop I use every weekend in a working place, have a low power C2D 1.6ghz, 4GB ram, SSD and work fine too, but in this laptop for example instead of youtube in background, i use invidious

I dont think less tan this C2D will be a nice browsing

pete8475 wrote on 2024-03-03, 01:18:

It seems to run very nicely on my XP gaming PC. […]
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It seems to run very nicely on my XP gaming PC.

specs:
Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2
4GB DDR3-1866
GTX970
240GB SSD

What CPU is in your XP machine?

You have a high end XP machine (gaming). My XP PC is a Compaq from 2004.

Intel Pentium M715 1.5 GHz
2 GB RAM DDR 133MHz
Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME graphics
55 GB ATAPI-6 Ultra DMA/100 hard drive

Norton Commander wrote on 2024-03-03, 18:34:

You have a high end XP machine (gaming). My XP PC is a Compaq from 2004. […]
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pete8475 wrote on 2024-03-03, 01:18:

It seems to run very nicely on my XP gaming PC. […]
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It seems to run very nicely on my XP gaming PC.

specs:
Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2
4GB DDR3-1866
GTX970
240GB SSD

What CPU is in your XP machine?

You have a high end XP machine (gaming). My XP PC is a Compaq from 2004.

Intel Pentium M715 1.5 GHz
2 GB RAM DDR 133MHz
Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME graphics
55 GB ATAPI-6 Ultra DMA/100 hard drive

Chromium is for new computers, high end C2D and up, not old ones. For old ones, kmeleon is much better

A pentium M anyways is a nice CPU, but slow for today webrowsing sadly

Norton Commander wrote on 2024-03-03, 18:34:

You have a high end XP machine (gaming). My XP PC is a Compaq from 2004. […]
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You have a high end XP machine (gaming). My XP PC is a Compaq from 2004.

Intel Pentium M715 1.5 GHz
2 GB RAM DDR 133MHz
Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME graphics
55 GB ATAPI-6 Ultra DMA/100 hard drive

Ah yes that is a world of difference in CPU speed.

Hi guys, new version, 122, fix a lot of small bugs, specially GDI fonts

And also broken installer now works...

Supermium is insanely slow and terrible on XP SP3.

Bruninho wrote on 2024-03-18, 20:20:

Supermium is insanely slow and terrible on XP SP3.

Is there any other web browser for Windows XP with full compatibility with any website?

I've tried several browsers recommended here and Supermium is the first one that doesn't seem to have any problem rendering or loading any website.

ntalaec wrote on 2024-03-19, 15:39:

Bruninho wrote on 2024-03-18, 20:20:

Supermium is insanely slow and terrible on XP SP3.

Is there any other web browser for Windows XP with full compatibility with any website?

I've tried several browsers recommended here and Supermium is the first one that doesn't seem to have any problem rendering or loading any website.

XPchrome by weolar

The only two releases of XPchrome seem to have expiration date: "The validity period of this version is one year"

https://github.com/weolar/xpchrome/releases

If it is based on similar chromium version is there any noticable speed difference? I would be curious...
A timebomb included? No, thanks...

RayeR wrote on 2024-03-19, 17:52:

If it is based on similar chromium version is there any noticable speed difference? I would be curious...
A timebomb included? No, thanks...

Chromium and Xpchrome had some similar issues related to memory allocation, the former fixed it while the latter seems inactive in development. Weolar also said that he could make the browser without timebomb if there's demand (well let him come to the forum again)

Bruninho wrote on 2024-03-18, 20:20:

Supermium is insanely slow and terrible on XP SP3.

I dont see much difference using supermium in both my desktop, xeon quad 8gb and laptop i5 8gb, if i compare using supermium in winxp, win7 or win10

what website is slowfor you? i will test

theelf wrote on 2024-03-20, 00:21:

Bruninho wrote on 2024-03-18, 20:20:

Supermium is insanely slow and terrible on XP SP3.

I dont see much difference using supermium in both my desktop, xeon quad 8gb and laptop i5 8gb, if i compare using supermium in winxp, win7 or win10

what website is slowfor you? i will test

I didnt even manage to type an URL to load a website, it was just sluggish slow, even after racking up the RAM for my XP vm. I ended sticking with New Moon.

Bruninho wrote on 2024-03-20, 03:52:

even after racking up the RAM for my XP vm

If you don't mind me asking - I do get wanting a browser on a physical machine, but not in a VM. What's the point of using an outdated browser on top of an outdated OS within a virtualized environment which reduces performance and potentially introduces incompatibilities, when you could just do it on the host?

Bruninho wrote on 2024-03-20, 03:52:

theelf wrote on 2024-03-20, 00:21:

Bruninho wrote on 2024-03-18, 20:20:

Supermium is insanely slow and terrible on XP SP3.

I dont see much difference using supermium in both my desktop, xeon quad 8gb and laptop i5 8gb, if i compare using supermium in winxp, win7 or win10

what website is slowfor you? i will test

I didnt even manage to type an URL to load a website, it was just sluggish slow, even after racking up the RAM for my XP vm. I ended sticking with New Moon.

serious answer or is a joke?

Last time I tried it (version 121), it was rather sloppy, even had the bug of those Chinese ports (360 Extreme Explorer at least) where fonts eventually corrupt or disappear when using Stylus, maybe also under certain different circumstances.

Chromium generally works poor on my hardware without GPU acceleration (so no usable WebGL either), even more on the ancient dinosaur that is XP, HD videos are frame-dropping galore, choppy auto-scrolling, laggy CSS transitions/animations. Not that I expected much on XP.

Old Chromium build 291943 (dev variant of Chromium 39), now that's something else, at least as far as WebGL goes. Also a stark difference in how huge Chromium has become over the years.

Also this fork relies on proprietary KernelEx style hack, so it's not a pure XP compatible web browser. You can't take its source code and compile a working browser from it.

theelf wrote on 2024-03-20, 05:13:

Bruninho wrote on 2024-03-20, 03:52:

theelf wrote on 2024-03-20, 00:21:

I dont see much difference using supermium in both my desktop, xeon quad 8gb and laptop i5 8gb, if i compare using supermium in winxp, win7 or win10

what website is slowfor you? i will test

I didnt even manage to type an URL to load a website, it was just sluggish slow, even after racking up the RAM for my XP vm. I ended sticking with New Moon.

serious answer or is a joke?

Not sure but my Pentium manages to run 1080p at 60fps fullscreen most of the time on Youtube on Supermium